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AMD has a technology they call dual graphics so their APUs could work in conjunction with a discrete GPU, similar to how you can Crossfire two discrete GPUs together already. It's probably more geared towards notebooks where the APU can get by driving the display and the GPU can sit idle. One review found that it could give substantial performance increases for some games, but it depends on driver support as well as where the performance bottleneck is at.

Sounds like your cooling sucks, maybe you should try something like this. this is the one I use on my FX-8320E and while that normally isn't a hot chip but when I'm doing a ton of A/V work I'll use the Asus OCing tool that came with my board and even with the chip running full bore with 8 cores at 4Ghz it still keeps temps reasonable,IIRC the highest I ever got was 130F and without OC it stays a nice cool 80F according to the board sensors. To see how it performs with an Intel here is a review and as you can see it scored just 8 degrees higher than the huge Corsair H100.

I personally love it, its quiet, easy to install, and works well.

And apparently the site I linked does not like hard links. Meh. Whatever. Just image search for "2600 cartridge interior", you will find it.

Here's a link to one of their articles which shows the contents of a cartridge. Hopefully that'll work?

Not exactly. A flashdrive is a serial bus peripheral that communicates using an encoded format.

A cartridge is typically little more than an exposed parallel logic bus that directly maps to the console's main memory. (Atari 2600 carts were literally a ROM chip, with its leads exposed on the card edge. Nothing else. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com... )

NES and SNES carts had special purpose chips on them to help page the address of the ROM inside the main CPU's memory space, and even a few special co-processors on occasion, but were still just a direct tie-in to the memory bus.

A DIMM and a cartridge have more in common than a USB stick does with a cartridge.

CAS latency hasn't been measured directly in nanoseconds for some time now. It is now measured in clock cycles. The shorter your clock cycles (the higher your frequency) the shorter in absolute time your CAS latency is for the same number. CAS 10 at 2133 is about the same as CAS 5 on 1066.

CAS latency on Wikipedia
Memory timing on Hardware Secrets
FAQ on RAM timings from Kingston

B&W computers? Let me count them. Apple Macintosh back when even the Atari 800 had color. NeXT computer. Another B&W screen. Melting computers: starting from at least the Apple III.

Don't buy a TPM module? Just because a motherboard supports it doesn't mean you have to turn it on... or am I missing something?

It's pretty much impossible to get a new system with any reasonable compute ability without at least some form of back doored TPM-like facility these days. For example, the new Intel Ivy Bridge Chipsets have vPro, which gives similar capabilities. Likewis, the new AMD systems currently being planned have the ability to run TZones in the on-board ARM processor to implement a software TPM, as long as they aren't exposed out directly.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/news/Intel-Launches-Ivy-Bridge-CPUs-with-vPro-Technology/6464
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/05/15/intel-strengthens-security-boosts-performance-for-business-with-3rd-generation-intel-core-vpro-platforms

i wouldn't be so sure about that - my floppy copies of MacOS 6 and 7 worked well on my classics and such. even my powerbook 140, and this was only 5-6 years ago. worked perfectly, original factory disk sets.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/printpage/How-to-Generate-Floppy-Disks-for-Old-Macintosh-Computers/1713

anyway, for the curious, a rundown on writing old mac floppies.

(note: if you do them as 1.44MB floppies, they read/write at the same speed, so no special hardware needed as long as you have macs that can read 1.44s. easy way to avoid the hassle if you have the option.)

Apparently by linking to that image, you were stealing it. Who knew?!

This is the inside of a 2600 cart.

There is no window.
EEPROM didnt exist yet.

To reprogram an ET cart, they would have had to desolder the PROM, and put a new on on. that might actually have saved money, since they could recycle the PCB that way.

I've got the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator Review (NIA) and it works fairly well for gaming.
As far as I can tell, it does pick up muscle contractions (eyebrow raising) better than brain activity. Takes a lot of training, too.

I had a lot of intermittent reading trouble with it, until I started smearing the sensors with electrode paste, then I got more consistent results.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/649

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

That brings home another benefit of picking a high efficiency power supply: generally a much higher quality and specs that you can actually trust. For instance compare the review of the Coolmax 750W with that of the Corsair VX450W. The el-cheapo 750W PSU blew up twice after they pulled just 500W while the 450W one managed to provide a stable 572W before it shutdown cleanly due to over load protection! So before buying a power supply it's worth reading a proper review of it, even if you only read the conclusion page.

So just looking at much is saved on electricity is missing the big picture.

How does OCZ stack up as far as component quality? This one is about 20% cheaper than SeaSonic.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/OCZ-ZX-Series-850-W-Power-Supply-Review/1204/10

Sounds like it would be fine as long as you don't overload it.

And maybe you can get the Sparkle SCC for even less if they ever release a 1250W version,

Yes, that is indeed the site! Recommended readings:

"Everything You Need to Know About Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/181

"Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Anatomy-of-Switching-Power-Supplies/327 ...should be enough to make you care about your PSU.

They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.

Yes, it's pretty EE-heavy, but Gabriel does an excellent job explaining everything. And there are even quizzes on the site when you're ready to get on your nerd challenge:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/25
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/45

Yes, that is indeed the site! Recommended readings:

"Everything You Need to Know About Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/181

"Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Anatomy-of-Switching-Power-Supplies/327 ...should be enough to make you care about your PSU.

They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.

Yes, it's pretty EE-heavy, but Gabriel does an excellent job explaining everything. And there are even quizzes on the site when you're ready to get on your nerd challenge:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/25
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/45

Yes, that is indeed the site! Recommended readings:

"Everything You Need to Know About Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/181

"Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Anatomy-of-Switching-Power-Supplies/327 ...should be enough to make you care about your PSU.

They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.

Yes, it's pretty EE-heavy, but Gabriel does an excellent job explaining everything. And there are even quizzes on the site when you're ready to get on your nerd challenge:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/25
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/45

Yes, that is indeed the site! Recommended readings:

"Everything You Need to Know About Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/181

"Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Anatomy-of-Switching-Power-Supplies/327 ...should be enough to make you care about your PSU.

They also have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of lots of Make / Models of PSUs so you can look up your own and find out all the ways in which it sucks. These articles should probably be up there with Anand's SSD Anthology or something.

Yes, it's pretty EE-heavy, but Gabriel does an excellent job explaining everything. And there are even quizzes on the site when you're ready to get on your nerd challenge:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/25
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/quiz/45

You're thinking of hardwaresecrets.com - they do the type of PS reviews only an EE truly appreciates! :)

Awesome. Thanks for that!

Bought one Antec Earthwatts long time ago. The PSU was not much more expensive than the others (good brands) so the savings are obvious.

Another thing TFA doesn't take into account is that the 80-Plus certified supplies tend to have better components overall than non-certified supplies.

Read some of the reviews at Hardware Secrets and you'll see that it's not uncommon for a well-built "350W" power supply to be able to output 450W, while a crappy 350W supply can't even handle 300W.

Yeah Antec is good generally, most of their stuff is made by seasonic. So is OCZ(generally), mushkin, and a few others. I'd recommend looking through here. And see who is making what it can change sometimes between revisions. And generally the reviews are quite good. And each PSU has a teardown, including what's being jammed inside the guts. So you have a fairly good idea of what components are being used.

Random tale of my friend: He purchased a 450watt cheap PSU and it ran hot for a few months then burned out. He swapped it out for a 250watt namebrand PSU and the system ran another 5 years.

Goto http://www.jonnyguru.com/ or http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/ and read some PSU reviews. HWSecrets has a really good article somewhere on the different ways to measure a PSU.

I now look for low-heat and jitter under above-rated load while maintaining excellent efficiency.

but apparently chocolate makes for a really bad thermal paste

The scary part from that article is that mayonnaise is as good as many commercial thermal compounds.

I've heard reports that thermal paste isn't normally very important.....

I would have thought [anything] would be better than nothing,
but apparently chocolate makes for a really bad thermal paste

A roundup of reviews from the usual major sites as well as others not mentioned in the summary above: Overclockers Review, Anandtech Review, Anandtech Undervolting/Overclocking, HardwareSecrets, Bit-tech, PCPer, Tweaktown, Hard OCP, The Inquirer, Techspot, Computer Shopper, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, PC Mag, Overclockers Club, and Guru 3d

I don't know what mother you're buying, but my 4 year old Asus P5K-E mother board does not have a parallel or serial port. This is fairly normal these days.

From the first page, last paragraph of your linked article.

This board also doesn’t have parallel and serial ports, although one serial port is available through an I/O bracket that doesn’t come with the product.

Parallel is getting hard to find though (not that I'm looking for it).

I don't know what mother you're buying, but my 4 year old Asus P5K-E mother board does not have a parallel or serial port. This is fairly normal these days.

Does any PC display with HDMI have some kind of DD pass though or 5.1 or more analog out?

The first result from Google home theater pc 5.1 was "How to Connect 5.1 Speakers to Your PC" by Gabriel Torres.

Huh? The linked products are beyond horrible compared to any decent and MUCH cheaper AC PSU. Just look at any half decent review site, like the awarded products @ hardwaresecrets.

I won't be paying $280 for a 400W DC PSU with 65% efficiency when I can get a whisper silent 500W PSU at 87%+ efficiency for $99 (Enermax Pro87+), or a fanless Seasonic X-400 for $134. The numbers just don't make sense. And yes, these are "honest" wattages, the 400W one actually delivered 600 in overload testing. You do have to do your homework when it comes to buying a PSU, but it really isn't that hard nowadays - aim for 80+ Gold and it's usually safe.

I don't really care how simple and straight forward a DC system is, but if it's costing me 2-3x in purchase and wastes 30% of the input power as heat, count me out.

Actually, the C1 "idle" state was added with the 486DX4, and the HLT instruction it's based off of dates back to the 8086 (source here), so it's a lot older than ten years.

As for SETI@Home being "designed to monitor computer usage," when I used to run it, this wasn't the case, and I doubt seriously this has changed much. If the process is running at normal priority, it'll attempt to use CPU cycles the same as any other program running at normal priority. Proper configuration practices for "unnecessary" background processes/services would have them running at idle priority, at which point it's the scheduler's job to allocate spare CPU cycles when nothing else other than all other idle processes actually needs CPU time. If the SETI@Home CLI client was configured in such a manner (even better if it was configured as a Windows service) the user would see no impact whatsoever in system performance because all of the user's programs would run at a higher priority than SETI@Home.

And SETI@Home doesn't constantly use network resources either. It downloads a work unit, processes it, and then sends it back, as opposed to something like bittorrent which actually generates constant network traffic even if it's not otherwise doing anything of note.

Doesn't that (rather) exactly describe the Nvidia Tesla product, released starting in 2007? http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/495

Nothing about these PhysX claims, or these conspiracy theories, are news.

Lots and lots of tests and bechmarks. Looking good.

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Last time I checked, RAID-0 is useless for access times regardless of the media.

Well, last time you checked, you were dead wrong. Here, let me uncomplicate the complicated for you.

To answer the poster's question, I have a Thecus N5200 Pro that performs pretty well - RAID0 should break 40MB/s - not amazing, but better than any other SOHO NAS's around, barring the new N7700, which looks like it'll hit Gig-E limits (finally a cheapish NAS that approaches 100MB/s for reads/writes). That said, you're gonna pay for the performance - the N5200 is about $700 and the N7700 is $1100 (enclosure's only). eAegis sells them w/ burned in drives as well - that's where I got my N5200. The hot-swap and automatic RAID rebuilding works as well and it has built in FTP, SMB, AFP, and NFS and is pretty good for a plug and play system.

That being said, you're definitely paying a premium, and you could easily throw together a multi-terabyte system that would max out your GigE for about the same price as what you'd pay for the N5200 enclosure. My only big recommendation there is that you get a hotswap rack w/ that - makes things much more pleasant when replacing drives.

One other thing to consider is power consumption. My N5200 Pro idles at 80W - if you built a low-power mini-ITX system you could probably get something pretty close to that, but a regular PC would probably be closer to 150-200W. Depending on your electric billing, you could be talking about a $100-200/yr difference there.

"I realize you're joking (and I agree that the parallel port is useless), but RS232 is still pretty useful."
You may want to re think that. Take a look here.

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html

And here
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/233

And here
http://www.phanderson.com/stamp/intro/intro.html

And here
http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/3230

For your average PC user the parallel port is pretty useless. But for a hardware hacker they are great!

"And the best part about a SS:, is it's multiple parallel chips."

that's RAID-0 on a chip. That explains the high read rate, although 67 megabyte/second isn't amazingly fast for flash drives: A single 1gb ATP Toughdrive reads at 33 mB/second. RAID-0 two of them and you have 66 mB/sec. Sounds like that's exactly what they did.

Another benefit of flash memory over hard drives I forgot: no maximum vs minimum rates. Data can be placed anywhere and read/write at the same speeds, compared to hard drives where data stored on the outside of the platters reads and writes faster than the inner. portion.

I get my numbers from an actual measurements. Where do you get yours? If you don't have an meter, play with this for a bit.

if your interested in how it works you can read this or a less technical WIKI

Older Processors used lots of power too, and the old power supplies were usually less than 70% efficient

A 25 watt P3 with 3 10 watt (idle) hard drives with no video and a super efficient 10 watt mother and memory and no fans will still use 65 watts, but with the efficiency of 70% that means 85 watts for a best case scenario for an older pc.

Since the pc does little real "work" virtually all of that is expressed as heat in your house. Fine in winter, but in summer that takes another 100 watts to cool that hot air.

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and another from 2004>

But most likely these are going to be machines from the last 2 years that can't play the new games, and will likely use far more power.

For reference, my SLI game setup (AMD64 5600 X2, 2 Raptors, 2 Asus 6600 GTS's) pulls 520 real watts playing half life.

I can only afford to play in winter. :P

I've heard this before from ATI, but have yet to see any real progress. Okay, I just bought an ASUS motherboard, and they were kind enough to include the Linux drivers - in binary. But a Google search for "ATI Radeon Datasheet" reveals no datasheets, only sad commentary on how ATI has failed to live up to its promises.

From this article comes:

The second main cultural difference we would like to point out is the lack of more in-depth technical information on ATI products written in clear language available to the public. On a press presentation held on September, 2005, ATI spokesperson said that from that date on all ATI would fully disclosure all the technical details (like block diagrams and in-depth explanations, for example) of their architecture, but this never hit the web, what contrasts with AMD philosophy. AMD and all other microprocessor manufacturers always made available their datasheets with in-depth information about their products. For us that work in a highly technical media, not having access to the technical information right away is really bad.

As someone who has ported Linux framebuffer drivers to different ARM platforms, I would not have much of a problem writing Linux drivers for the ATI chips. I could probably do it in a few weeks of part time effort (at least as far as the FB is concerned), maybe a little more if I wanted to include special features. (Read: reinvent the 3D rendering wheel.)

The problem is, though, that I bought this ASUS motherboard thinking that it was open; that I could write the drivers for the video card if need be. Now that I can't get a datasheet, I'm dependent on the good graces of ATI.

"While CDMA is slightly more efficient it's lock in effect is crazy."

Slightly? Slightly!

I'm actually glad someone has taken Microsoft to-task on this one, because the overall picture I'm getting from the online review world is ReadyBoost doesn't really help performance.

I don't think the feature is "broken" by definition, in fact I think the intended benefits are so tiny that people are left confused. According to this FAQ page, we know the following:

1. This is designed "at best" to deliver a few percent faster performance, targeting smaller files. It is intended as an upgrade path of last resort.

2. It requires incredibly fast flash memory for small block sizes (compared to your average drives on the market).

3. The software uses compression to improve thoroughput performance and AES-128 for security.

MY TAKE ON THIS: ReadyBoost is an expensive way to improve your performance by a few percent. ReadyBoost may actually be detrimental to performance if you're not COMPLETELY IO-bound because data on the flash drive has to both decompressed and decrypted during every access. The current capabilities are so unclear that it's no wonder people would call the feature "broken."

Hey, since you're back, let me ask you to expand on why gigabit ethernet won't work. I'm confused about that since there shouldn't be any problem linked up as and reading packets at 1 Gb/sec in my experience.

1000BASE-T (also known as IEEE 802.3ab) is a standard for gigabit Ethernet over copper wiring. It requires, at a minimum, Category 5 cable (the same as 100BASE-TX), but Category 5e ("Category 5 enhanced") and Category 6 cable may also be used and are often recommended. 1000BASE-T requires all four pairs to be present and is far less tolerant of poorly installed wiring than 100BASE-TX.

Each network segment can have a maximum distance of 100 meters, although several chip manufacturers claim 150 meters. Autonegotiation is a requirement for using 1000BASE-T according to the standard. Several device drivers will allow you to force 1000 Mbps full duplex to eliminate autonegotiation issues.

However, the two-pair solution required Category 6 cable and has been a commercial failure, likely due to the rapidly falling cost of 1000BASE-T products combined with the Category 6 cable requirement. Many 1000BASE-T products are advertised as 1000BASE-TX due to lack of knowledge that 1000BASE-TX is actually a different standard.

- http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=482
- http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=861&cid=1
- http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538
- http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3357/48/
- http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=287
- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33872
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/23/review_ati _radeon_x1950_xtx/
- http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=954
- http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/radeon-x1950x tx/index.x?pg=1
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2007324 ,00.asp
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/23/ati_releases_rad eon_x1950/
- http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/375/
- http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2 020&cid=3&pg=1
- http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x19 50_xtx_performance/
- http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXreview /

up to date list: http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/showthread.php?s=& threadid=26526

(Offtopic) I don't have enough information to comment on this new technology, but I can say high dynamic range displays mentioned by this parent post rock. Here are a few links if you want to know what/how they are: 1 2 3

192 gigabytes.

Look what the fastest GPUs do and what makes them so fast: 48 Pixels per clock

Next, look what turn Sun, Intel and maybe AMD are taking, towards CPUs that can run more than32 concurrently running threads.

Now, guess how many concurrently running threads our CPUs can run today? It doesn't matter how good or bad MMX or 3DNow are without abilities to run massively parallel tasks.

For mainstream water cooling.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/295

All this fish tubing crap is amateur hour. Switching to nitrile or metal hoses makes the system a lot more palatable and reliable.

I expect this Intel solution will be rolled out with Woodcrest. I can't see another way they're going to get two dual-core chips into any regular case and have it quiet. Apple will probably insist on a system like this for their towers anyway, because its quiet.